Sept. 24, 2021 Friday
Queens of Pain
Cassie Hay, Amy Winston1h 15mEnglish Documentary FeatureThree women at different stages of life - Suzy Hotrod, Evilicious, and Captain Smack Sparrow - struggle to balance their lives in New York City with the dedication and stamina needed to maintain their place on the world's best roller derby team.
Friday Morning Shorts
In this Program
- In Full Bloom
- Maegan Houang11mEnglish Narrative Short
- LOVE POOL
- Asim Chaudhry17mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- Game Over
- Adam Jenkins8mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- A Song Can't Burn
- Roscoe Neil12mGBEnglish Documentary Short
- Watch Room
- Noah Wagner17mEnglish Narrative Short
- Down
- Garry Crystal12mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- The Role
- 12mPersian Narrative Short
- All These Creatures
- Charles Williams13mAustraliaEnglish Narrative Short
El Rey de la Fiesta (King of the Party)
Salomón Askenazi1h 31mMexicoEnglish Narrative FeatureHéctor, a man in his fifties with a good job and a family, is in the middle of a midlife crisis. His twin brother Rafael is his total opposite: a relaxed and eccentric life long partier who refuses to settle down. What if Héctor could be Rafael without anyone knowing? What would it do to him and those around him?
3:00 PM
MI Table
1h
Nick Scalise In-Studio Performance
In this Program
- Nick Scalise In-Studio
- 1hEnglish Music
4:00 PM
Delta College Planetarium
1h 30m
Outstanding Crowdfunding Outreach
This is the next step after defining your audience with our Crowdfunding to Build Independence workshop: "If you build it, they will come" isn't true until you invite them! We’ll show you how to make that invitation irresistible for existing audiences and new ones alike. We’ll teach you how to approach marketing as pre-production, from leveraging your existing network to the best ways to reach your target audience via social media, email, and more.
In this Program
- Outstanding Crowdfunding Outreach
- 1h 30mEnglish Workshop/Panel
Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game
Ted Stenson1h 15mCanadaEnglish Narrative FeatureIt's 1999 and the Middleview Ducks high school basketball team are about to play the most low-stakes game of their lives. As the team prepares for another certain loss, the dramas around the game become more of a focus than the score. Pot-smoking, existentialism, radical theatre kid protests, and a dog on the loose, all unfold before, during, and after the high school basketball game.
Driftless
Harper Philbin1h 15mUSAEnglish Narrative FeatureDriftless is a feature-length drama about Nova Abbey, a park ranger at work during a state government shutdown on a busy 4th of July weekend, protecting the park from the people and the people from each other.
Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game
Ted Stenson1h 15mCanadaEnglish Narrative FeatureIt's 1999 and the Middleview Ducks high school basketball team are about to play the most low-stakes game of their lives. As the team prepares for another certain loss, the dramas around the game become more of a focus than the score. Pot-smoking, existentialism, radical theatre kid protests, and a dog on the loose, all unfold before, during, and after the high school basketball game.
The Catch
Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer1h 37mEnglish Narrative Feature*Suspense/Drama*
A woman returns to her estranged family, and reconnects with a former lover. When the robbery they plan goes awry, she must choose between abandoning her family again or taking responsibility for the chaos she's created.
Friday Evening Shorts
HHM Jury Nominations - Best Shorts 2019: The Wind Phone
In this Program
- The Drink
- Cosima Spender12mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- Cells
- Raymond Wood12mEnglish Narrative Short
- Sven
- Christopher Rucinski11mEnglish Narrative Short
- The Great Record Hunt
- Ethan Minsker, Shayne Kamat25mEnglish Documentary Short
- Dough
- Kurt Schneider9mEnglish Narrative Short
- THE WIND PHONE
- Kristen Gerweck16mJapanese (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
- Too Late
- Clayton Dean Smith4mEnglish Narrative Short
- Fuck you, Steve
- 9mEnglish Narrative Short
The Penny Black
William J. Saunders1h 38mUSAEnglish Documentary FeatureWill, the estranged son of a conman, was left holding the bag, literally. His shady Russian neighbor, Roman, asked him to hold a million-dollar stamp collection, then swiftly disappears. Driven by fear and the desire to "do the right thing," Will goes on the hunt for Roman with the intention of returning the valuable goods. But when a significant piece of the collection goes missing, the filmmakers are forced to reexamine Will's capacity for honesty.
Filmmaker Reception
In this Program
- Filmmaker Reception 2018
- 2hEnglish Reception/Party
8:15 PM
Virtual Experience (online)
1h
Nick Scalise In-Studio Performance
In this Program
- Nick Scalise In-Studio
- 1hEnglish Music
The Catch
Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer1h 37mEnglish Narrative Feature*Suspense/Drama*
A woman returns to her estranged family, and reconnects with a former lover. When the robbery they plan goes awry, she must choose between abandoning her family again or taking responsibility for the chaos she's created.
Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor @ Filmmaker Reception
Detroit Psych-Rock Sisters of your Sunshine Vapor are a Detroit psych-rock band known for their immersive records and DIY work ethic. The band's recent album "Good Goddamn" released is their fifth in 12 years under the SOYSV moniker. Their expansive career has been filled with extensive touring of North America and Europe all while maintaining the same original line-up. The COVID-19 locked down halted early progress on recording and the band was forced to work on new approaches to writing and collaboration. The result led to the band’s most poignant and melodic record of their career.
In this Program
- Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor
- 1hEnglish Music
Martha : A Picture Story
Selina Miles1h 22mEnglish Documentary Feature*Biography*
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become influential to the global movement of street artists.
The Last Porno Show
Kire Paputts1h 30mCanadaEnglish Narrative FeatureWayne, a struggling method actor, inherits the city's last porno cinema from his estranged father, Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile their relationship, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the pornography business. While running the cinema Wayne meets a cast of characters. Each character acts as a piece of a puzzle in helping Wayne rediscover the father he barely knew. But the old cinema turns out to be much more than Wayne anticipated.